I would think any developers still at SNK worth their starch, or just halfway decent human beings, would be headed for the exit as well, regardless of how company-loyal Japanese work culture has traditionally been; when a murderous dictator buys your company, all bets have got to be off even in Japan, don't they? And MBS wouldn't be stupid enough to think he'd get the company with old developers--or even a good chunk of their nich audience--intact, would he? So did he just buy it for the properties, or the name?

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Posted by Paleface on December 01, 2020 at 21:01:34 EST in reply to yep, it's real bad. sucks to watch a company you spent 15 years building a relationship with, whose history you've documented and raised up as a beacon in some ways just turn into this overnight. Like someone said somewhere else, I miss they days when they were just extorting money from people. Suffice it to say, I can't work with them anymore. The killing of the journalist is a pretty bad one but let's not forget the basically ongoing genocide in yemen. there's no way I could work on anything that has even a chance of enriching this guy. with US taxes and all the murdering our military does I have no choice other than becoming a citizen of another country. in this case here I have a choice. (n/t) from exodus.

I would think any developers still at SNK worth their starch, or just halfway decent human beings, would be headed for the exit as well, regardless of how company-loyal Japanese work culture has traditionally been; when a murderous dictator buys your company, all bets have got to be off even in Japan, don't they? And MBS wouldn't be stupid enough to think he'd get the company with old developers--or even a good chunk of their nich audience--intact, would he? So did he just buy it for the properties, or the name?

n/t

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you really overestimate... something, here. the integrity of human beings? I dunno. I doubt they'll lose a single person. SNK just got a lot of its old devs back and is starting to make traction. Frankly it'll probably be easier than ever for them to make new properties, revive old ones, etc, because their boss won't be as conservative about what games to make anymore. For people who don't care about ethics et cetera it'll be the glory days of SNK again.

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(14:46:21 12/02/20 EST)

I wouldn't be surprised if they bring old shyster trump supporting ben herman back to lead a US division at this point.

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(14:47:46 12/02/20 EST)

Hm...

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(16:55:50 12/02/20 EST)

A guy I used to work with quit my company to go do basically the same thing for Aramco. He makes 2x and the place is fully funded and clean as a whistle. This was a few years ago, before the Khashoggi situation, but when that happened I thought about what it would be like going to work while your boss is on TV around the world for ordering a gruesome hit on someone...basically for writing stories about him. I have no interest in being anywhere near anything like that. I’ve had headhunters trying to get me to work in the UAE or for Raytheon or whatever...they throw a lot of money at the people they need and it works because of the “get paid, damn the consequences” attitude of so many of the guys in industry. I’m the one guy that just wants to go home and hang out with the family all day. I myself have worked for Aramco! I probably told this story before... It was around 2000 or 2001 when I was doing digital graphics stuff for a museum company. The project was the Saudi-Aramco museum which was, I think, in Saudi Arabia. (I just made the signs...). There was a common graphical theme that ran through many of the signs where you’d see these towers...I don’t know what to call them. They look like a Russian church, with those little onion points on top. When all the towers looked exactly like dicks, partially at the end. Someone wasn’t good with illustrator and all the towers looks liked giant dicks...how do you bring this up with a client who is a committee or 70 year old men who think everything is a sin? Most of my company was female, so that would make it more difficult. One day the new versions of everything had normal looking towers and no dicks. I had to wonder how that happened though...did someone on our end fix it unprompted or did someone at Aramco who had looked at their own disc recently notice it? Was it a protest? From where? Anyway, I didn’t really understand who Aramco was during this time but I think now it’s a lot harder to feign ignorance.

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